Harness-tug.



No. 800,363. PATENTED SEPT. 26, 1905.

II III lm u i vIII! I G. W.'GREPS. HARNESS TUG.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 10. 1903- llllvgg lllll WITNESSES: [NI ENTOR MM. 21/ W, V f /Lq WQEMMJU. WW- v Aflomey useful Improvements in HaLrness-Tugs, of'

GEORGE W. CREPS, OF ROUZERVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF- ONE-HALF TO BENJAMIN F. HARTMAN,- OF

SYLVANIA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

ROUZERVILLE, PEN N HARNESS-TUG.

Patented Sept. 26, 1905.

Application filed September 10, 1903. Serial No. 172,581.

To all whom it may-concern.-

B'eit known that I, GEORGE W. (hears, a citizen of the United States. residing at Rouzerville, in 'the'county of Franklin and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented certain new and which the following is a specification.

or any other appropriate form.

My said invention consists in an improved attachment for a harness-tug which will enable the holdback-strap to be attached to said tug, so that the holdback-bracket on the shaft will connect therewith automatically and the attachment of said strap to the vehicle-shaft be thus obviated, thereby simplifying the work-of hitching and unhitching, all as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

' Referring to the accompanying drawings,

which are made a part hereof, and on which similar reference characters indicate similar parts, Figure 1 is a view of the inside of the tug provided with my attachment as it appears when in use, a short section of the vehicle-shaft being shown in connection therewith; Fig. 2, a similar view of the outside of said tug; Fig. 3, a view looking downwardly from the dotted line 3 3 in Figs. 1 and 2, and Fig. 4 a view looking in the direction indicated by the arrows from the dotted line 4 4 in Figs. 1 and 2.

In said drawings the portions marked A represent the vehicle-shaft, B the ordinary leather tug, and C a metal bracket attachment for said tug, Which constitutes a leading feature of my said invention. I

The shaft A has a holdb'ack-bracket a attached thereto, which may be ofthe form shown I prefer the form shown, consisting of a suitable bracket attached to the inside of the shaft, inasmuch as. the metal bracket C will bear against a point thereon more nearly in a line with the direction of the strain than when attached to the under side of said shaft.

The tug B is or may be any ordinary or appropriate leather harness-tug having an opening-or perforation b in its upper end, through which the back-strap 1 of the harness extends to engage with a buckle 2, suitably attached to the outside of said tug. An outer strap B passes through another perforation Z) in the, upper portion of the strap B and is doubled down around said strap B, having its two parts sewed or rivetedtogether beneath it, as at 5 A part extends downwardly to form a strap 3, to which the ordinary harness-girth may be buckled. The buckle. is preferably attached tovsaid strap B, as shown. Other forms of tugs may be used, if preferred, as will be'readily understood,this form being shown only as one that is suitable and to illustrate my invention.

The bracket 0 is formed of some suitable metal, as brass or malleable iron, and has a base or plate which is adapted to be inserted between the straps B and B on the inside of the tug, as shown, being secured in place by means of rivets 0 or other suitable fastening devices. Said bracket is formed with an arm extending back from said plate, having an eye or loop 0 on its rear end, through which the holdback-strap of the harness may be attached, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1. At a point adjacent to the edge of the strap B an arm 0 extends transverselyfrom said bracket C and is bent into a form to surround the shaft A, its outer end being in a position just above said shaft when in use. Said arm 0 is underneath the main strap B of said tug and does not come into contact with the surface of the shaft, said shaft being supported upon the soft surface of the leather tug, and thus protected from undue wear. The rear edge of said arm C is, however, somewhat Y behind the rear edge of said tug and the metal thus contacts with the holdback-bracket a,

the connection between said bracket 0 and bracket 64 being closely in the corner between the longitudinal arm 0 and the transverse arm G, directly in front of the connection with the holdback-strap and in line with the strain upon the harness. The bracket 0 being of malleable metal, the arm-C can be bent to ac commodate shafts of different sizes, its upper portion or outer end being always sufliciently close to the top side of the shaft to prevent it from raising in the main tug sufficiently to allow the bracket aupon the shaft to pass through said tug. By means of this arrangement all of the advantages of the leather tug in saving the shaft from undue wear are secured, and at the same time a very efficient holdback is provided, which is at all times'adjusted andrequires no labor for attaching or detaching except to insert the shaft into the tug. The harness being adjusted on the horse, the labor of hitching and unhitching is thus reduced to simply attaching or detaching the traces to the swingletree.

Having thus fully described my said invenby Letters Patent, is

tion, what I-claim as new, and desire to secure the leather portion of the tug, the rear of said arm being also behind the rear edge of the leather portion on the under side of the shaft, whereby said shaft is supported upon the leather portion of the tug While the holdback-ironof the shaft contacts only with the metal portion, all substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, at Rouzerville, Pennsylvania, this 29th day of August, A. l). .1903.

GEORGE \V. ()REPS.

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Witnesses:

B. F. HAR'IMAN, ALF. N. RUSSELL. 

